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To Francis Darwin   25 September [1876]1

Dear F.

I shall not have any Orchid Proofs for a long time, as I have not yet even sent M.S. to Printers.2

Your corrections are very good & very useful3

C.D.

I send today Chapt. XI., a very short one.—4

Sept 25

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876].
2
Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 (Publishers’ circular, 1 February 1877, p. 93).
3
See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] and n. 1. The corrections were for Cross and self fertilisation.
4
In the published version, chapter 11 was twenty-one pages long.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 have] above del ‘shall’
1.1 yet] after del ‘just’
1.1 even sent] above del ‘send’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10617,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10617